UCL DEPARTMENT OF SPACE & CLIMATE PHYSICS

Archive of MSSL News

Pioneering work helps to join the dots across the known universe… and the human brain

Publication date:
24 November 2014

A team of astrophysicists,
engineers and computer scientists are spearheading research on imaging techniques
which will potentially not only unlock secrets from the far reaches of the
universe, but also impact modern medicine.

Mars has macroweather too

Publication date:
13 November 2014

But weather forecasting on the Red Planet is likely to be even trickier than on Earth

Mars has the same three-part pattern of atmospheric conditions as Earth, finds a new study by researchers at UCL and McGill University. This includes weather, which changes day-to-day due to constant fluctuations in the atmosphere; climate, which varies over decades and a third regime called macroweather, which describes the relatively stable regime between weather and climate.

Waiting for the Philae landing...

Publication date:
11 November 2014

The Planetary Science group at UCL-MSSL are eagerly awaiting
the Philae landing planned for Wednesday this week. Professor Andrew Coates is
a co-investigator in the Rosetta Plasma Consortium (RPC) on the orbiter, which will
be monitoring the plasma environment during the descent and landing, and has
already been making measurements of the comet plasma environment since
achieving orbit in August. He will be an invited guest at ESOC for the landing
itself.